Project Summary: Foundations of Biology

OER Project Directory Foundations of Biology
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BASIC INFORMATION

Title: Foundations of Biology
Authors: Amanda Murray Hyde , Jennifer Williams, and Shannon Compton
Project coordinator: Tim Dolan, Greenfield Community College / @dolant
Rebus project manager: Zoe Wake Hyde / @zoe
License: CC BY
Target audience: First semester survey courses at community colleges, with a mixture of biology majors and gen-ed students.
Subject: Biology

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This project will involve merging OpenStax Biology and OpenStax Concepts of Biology to create a version suitable for the mixed groups that are taught in a community college setting.

HELP NEEDED
We currently need help with:

  • Importing into Pressbooks (the first step)
  • Accessibility and tagging checks
  • Training for the team
  • Proofreading/copyediting

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
If you’re excited by this project, but still not sure where you’d like to get involved, just sign up to the forum, and post below for project updates. Give us an idea of your background, particular area of expertise, and interests. We’ll follow up and make sure we find ways to have you participate!

RECOGNITION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
This project couldn’t happen without your participation. All contributing authors will be credited prominently in their chapter, the book, the metadata and promotional materials. All editors, reviewers and other contributors will also be credited.

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Help us make this Open Textbook: “Foundations of Biology” Find out how to contribute here: http://bit.ly/fdnsofbio

Current project team:
@dolant (project coordinator), @zoe (rebus project manager), @hugh…and you?

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Updates from my end:

  1. I’ve contacted BCcampus to ask whether they are working on a PB version of the Biology book.

  2. Here is the Canadian edition of the OpenStax Concepts of Biology book, from BCcampus: https://opentextbc.ca/biology/

@zoe could you please put that book into the Rebus instance, as a reference. We can then easily help @tdolan & team get the bits they want into their own book.

  1. Lumen Learning has a bunch of Biology courses available on a Pressbooks instance, see:
    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/lumen

In particular, Biology I seems to have lots of OpenStax content in it. I don’t know how much editing etc has happened:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biology1/

… but all of this can come into Pressbooks much more cleanly than the OpenStax source files.

NOTE:
I suggest we (as Rebus) try to focus on getting a complete collection of OpenStax books in Pressbooks in “clean” versions – which will make it easy for people to edit / remix / revise them.

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Also, @lizmays @zoe … wondering if we should split out a specific/separate project … which is just: “get OpenStax Biology book into Pressbooks.”

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@hugh Here’s the BCcampus version of Concepts in Biology, freshly added to the Community Press: https://press.rebus.community/conceptsofbiology/

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@dolant Hey Tim, am I right in thinking you’re not planning on using the OpenStax quiz questions in your version? I haven’t been able to find a good way to copy over the solutions, so could save us some time if they’re not necessary. Will keep at it if they are, though!

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I am willing to organize some photo research for this book

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Thanks @aludbrook! We’ll let you know when we get closer to that stage.